I have a datetime called activity_dt and the data looks like this:
2/5/2013 9:24:00 AM 2/7/2013 7:17:00 AM
How do i group by date and hour?
SELECT [activity_dt], COUNT(*) as [Count] FROM (SELECT dateadd(hh, datediff(hh, '20010101', [activity_dt]), '20010101') as [activity_dt] FROM table) abc GROUP BY [activity_dt]
SQL Server :
SELECT [activity_dt], count(*) FROM table1 GROUP BY DATEPART(day, [activity_dt]), DATEPART(hour, [activity_dt]);
Oracle :
SELECT [activity_dt], count(*) FROM table1 GROUP BY TO_CHAR(activity_dt, 'DD'), TO_CHAR(activity_dt, 'hh');
MySQL :
SELECT [activity_dt], count(*) FROM table1 GROUP BY hour( activity_dt ) , day( activity_dt )
Using MySQL I usually do it that way:
SELECT count( id ), ... FROM quote_data GROUP BY date_format( your_date_column, '%Y%m%d%H' ) order by your_date_column desc;
Or in the same idea, if you need to output the date/hour:
SELECT count( id ) , date_format( your_date_column, '%Y-%m-%d %H' ) as my_date FROM your_table GROUP BY my_date order by your_date_column desc;
If you specify an index on your date column, MySQL should be able to use it to speed up things a little.
In my case... with MySQL:
SELECT ... GROUP BY TIMESTAMPADD(HOUR, HOUR(columName), DATE(columName))